Synopsis
Your free, weekly, pocket guide to the Scottish outdoors. A flavour of the countryside in 15 minutes! From BBC Radio Scotland
Episodes
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![Wassailing, Seaweed Foraging and Giant Viking Mice]()
Wassailing, Seaweed Foraging and Giant Viking Mice
15/01/2022 Duration: 01h22minMark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith with stories from the Scottish outdoors.
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![Beyond the Swelkie - Contemporary Responses to the Writing of George Mackay Brown in his Centenary Year with Jim Mackintosh]()
Beyond the Swelkie - Contemporary Responses to the Writing of George Mackay Brown in his Centenary Year with Jim Mackintosh
12/01/2022 Duration: 25minHelen Needham speaks with poet Jim Mackintosh about the legacy of George Mackay Brown.
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![Trees, Birds, Peatland, Antarctic Expeditions and Gaelic Place Names]()
Trees, Birds, Peatland, Antarctic Expeditions and Gaelic Place Names
08/01/2022 Duration: 01h23minMark and Euan with this week's Scotland Outdoors podcast.
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![What the Clyde said, after COP26]()
What the Clyde said, after COP26
05/01/2022 Duration: 30minMark explores the poem written by Kathleen Jamie in a journey along the Clyde in Glasgow
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![To celebrate Scotlands Year of Stories, a visit to Moniack Mhor, Scotlands Creative Writing Centre]()
To celebrate Scotland's Year of Stories, a visit to Moniack Mhor, Scotland's Creative Writing Centre
01/01/2022 Duration: 56minMark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith present the Scotland Outdoors podcast
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![Walking the Lairig Ghru with Adam Watson and Tom Weir]()
Walking the Lairig Ghru with Adam Watson and Tom Weir
29/12/2021 Duration: 32minWe dig into the archives and share a programme recorded in 1986.
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![Tales of Hogmanay and New Years Day]()
Tales of Hogmanay and New Year's Day
22/12/2021 Duration: 28minEuan McIlwraith looks at Scottish Hogmanay traditions from across the decades
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![Embracing the Darkness of Midwinter - Walking, Stargazing and a Doric Christmas Tale.]()
Embracing the Darkness of Midwinter - Walking, Stargazing and a Doric Christmas Tale.
18/12/2021 Duration: 01h21minMark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith with a Midwinter Special.
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![A Year of Wild Food with Monica Wilde.]()
A Year of Wild Food with Monica Wilde.
15/12/2021 Duration: 24minMark Stephen hears about Monica's year of buying nothing and foraging for food.
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![Food, Foraging, Mistletoe and Romans]()
Food, Foraging, Mistletoe and Romans
11/12/2021 Duration: 01h24minMark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith with the Scotland Outdoors podcast.
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![Food for the Climate - What We Should Be Eating and Growing in the Future with Professor Mads Fischer-Moller]()
Food for the Climate - What We Should Be Eating and Growing in the Future with Professor Mads Fischer-Moller
08/12/2021 Duration: 29minHelen Needham speaks with Professor Mads Fischer-Moller of Scotland's Rural College.
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![The aftermath of Storm Arwen, the Fairies of Glenshee and Hawick, the town of a 1000 Trails]()
The aftermath of Storm Arwen, the Fairies of Glenshee and Hawick, the town of a 1000 Trails
04/12/2021 Duration: 01h24minMark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith present Scotland Outdoors
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![The Awakening of Glenshee - The Stories of the Giants Hand and the Climate Emergency]()
The Awakening of Glenshee - The Stories of the Giant's Hand and the Climate Emergency
01/12/2021 Duration: 45minMark Stephen meets the people behind The Awakening Art Project at the Spittal of Glenshee
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![Earth, Wind and Fire - Surviving the Storm, an E Journey and Cooking on Wood]()
Earth, Wind and Fire - Surviving the Storm, an E Journey and Cooking on Wood
27/11/2021 Duration: 01h22minMark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith with stories from the Great Scottish Outdoors.
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![Walking as Art and the Walking Library with Professor Dee Heddon]()
Walking as Art and the Walking Library with Professor Dee Heddon
24/11/2021 Duration: 38minMark Stephen and Helen Needham take a walk in Glasgow with Dee Heddon.
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![Ranger Rendezvous, Cranes and the Worlds Smallest Car]()
Ranger Rendezvous, Cranes and the World's Smallest Car
20/11/2021 Duration: 01h22minMark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith present the Scotland Outdoors podcast.
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![25 Years of Landscape Restoration at the Woodland Trusts Glen Finglas Estate]()
25 Years of Landscape Restoration at the Woodland Trust's Glen Finglas Estate
17/11/2021 Duration: 27minMark Stephen meets Gwen Raes at Glen Finglas in the Trossachs.
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![Jonah The Whale, a field of flints near the river Dee and the ancient art of salmon net fishing]()
Jonah The Whale, a field of flints near the river Dee and the ancient art of salmon net fishing
13/11/2021 Duration: 01h24minMark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith present the Scotland Outdoors podcast
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![Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris and the Spell Songs Singers]()
Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris and the Spell Songs Singers
10/11/2021 Duration: 40minHelen Needham with the Spell Songs Collective ahead of the release of 'Let the Light In'.
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![Renewable Energy in Orkney, Sustainable Farming and Electric Cars - A COP26 Special.]()
Renewable Energy in Orkney, Sustainable Farming and Electric Cars - A COP26 Special.
06/11/2021 Duration: 01h22minWith Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith.
